Yes, your observation is correct. In Adobe Experience Platform (AEP), the inability to apply data governance labels to specific fields at the dataset level is indeed expected behavior because that workflow has been deprecated.
Workflow Deprecation: Adobe has moved field-level labeling to the schema level to ensure consistency across all datasets that use that same schema.
Dataset-Level Limitation: You can still apply labels to an entire dataset, but doing so automatically applies those labels to every field within that dataset.
To label specific fields you must now do this within the Schema Editor.
How to apply labels to specific fields now:
- Go to the Schemas workspace and open the schema your dataset is based on.
- Select the specific field in the canvas.
- In the Field properties sidebar, select Apply Access and Data Governance Labels.
- These labels will then automatically propagate to all datasets using that schema and appear as "read-only" inherited labels in the Dataset's Data Governance tab.
https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-platform/data-governance/e2e
